Category Archives: Canadian Press

JERUSALEM - In a first such move, Israel has denied entry to a foreign activist involved in efforts to boycott the Jewish state. Israel’s public security and interior ministers said on Tuesday t...

HALIFAX - For Mary Elizabeth Luka, one of the best ways to comprehend the enormity of the 1917 Halifax Explosion is by tracing the footsteps of the dead. Luka is a member of the Narratives in Space an...

PHILADELPHIA - A suburban Philadelphia judge settled one of two key pretrial issues in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial when he ruled on Monday that the jury could hear Cosby’s damaging t...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar - Some rain fell in southern Madagascar last week, a rare piece of good news for a drought-hit region where nearly 1 million people face severe hunger because of failed harves...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Turkish authorities have forcibly evicted tens of thousands of people in security operations in a predominantly Kurdish district of southeastern Turkey, a human rights group said ...

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - A New Brunswick MP is paying tribute to a leading fishermen’s advocate who was killed Monday in a car accident. Dominic LeBlanc, the federal fisheries minister, said in a state...

ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court agreed Tuesday to extradite three Turkish servicemen who were part of an eight-person helicopter crew that fled to Greece after a failed military coup, a decision that c...

BRUSSELS - Britain may not have two years to negotiate its divorce from the European Union after all. The EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit warned Tuesday that the country will have less than 18 m...

TEL AVIV, Israel - Tel Aviv residents woke up Tuesday to an unusual site - a golden statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed prominently in front of City Hall in an act of protest. Itay Z...

FREDERICTON - Just seven months after IBM announced it would begin teaching its Watson computer system to fight cybercrime, the company is graduating Watson to the next level of instruction. Caleb Bar...